Professional Christian counseling, or therapy, includes all of these but also considers a detailed view of the counselee's past personal history and seeks to reveal the patterns of sin, which prevent the counselee from experiencing God's joy.

It is the goal of the Christian therapist to help the counselee to discover what is God's will for his or her life (1 Corinthians 4:5). These processes are done to help formulate the context in which the counselee views the world and would live his or her life.

The counselee will be able to utilize God's word to address components of the personality that may hinder progress towards achieving God's plan for his or her life. The Christian counselor realizes that it is not the counselor who is to direct the session but the Holy Spirit.

Therefore, to answer the fundamental question, "what is Christian counseling?" It is providing assistance to one who is experiencing emotional difficult caused by a life dominating pattern of sin, through the use of biblical principal under the direction and authority of the Holy Spirit. Remember it is God's word that contains the counsel to overcome